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5.04 Area of composite shapes

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Area of composite shapes
1

Find the area of the following composite shapes:

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b
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2

Consider the figure shown:

a

Find the length of the diameter of the semicircle. Round your answer correct to two decimal places.

b

Find the area of the entire figure, correct to one decimal place.

3

Find the area of the shaded region in the following figures:

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
4

Consider the following figure:

a

Find the value of x.

b

Find the area of the shaded region.

Area of circular composite shapes
5

Find the shaded area of the following figures, correct to one decimal place:

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
6

Find the shaded area of the following figures, correct to two decimal places:

a
b
c
d
e
7

In the figure shown, a chord is drawn so that it cuts through a circle:

Find the shaded area, correct to two decimal places.

Applications
8

A piece of origami paper, orginally in the shape of a parallelogram, is folded along its shortest diagonal as shown.

What is the total area covered by the folded paper?

9

The diagram shows a piece of jewellery made out of gold:

a

Find the area of the piece. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

b

If the gold costs \$4 per square millimetre, find the cost of the piece of jewellery.

10

Lachlan designs a plot of land which contains his house and garden as shown in the diagram:

a

Find the total area of the plot of land.

b

Find the area of the garden.

11

The figure shows a plan of a dining room floor, which is to be tiled with slate tiles.

a

Calculate the area to be tiled. Round your answer to the nearest metre squared.

b

If the cost of tiling is \$10/m^2, how much will it cost to tile the dining room floor?

12

A circular metal plate of diameter 2 metres, has 65 holes of diameter 5\text{ cm} drilled into it. Find the remaining area of the metal plate in square metres. Round your answer to two decimal places.

13

A farmer is going to fertilise his paddock, which has the following shape:

a

Find the area of the paddock.

b

If it takes 150 kg of fertiliser to fertilise 100 square metres, how many kilograms of fertiliser should the farmer purchase?

14

The back cover of a mobile phone is shown in the following diagram. The rounded corners are quadrants:

Find the area of the back cover, excluding the circular camera lens. Round your answer to two decimal places.

15

The diagram on the right shows a landscaping plan with the garden at the top bordered by a circular arc and the property boundary.

a

Find the area of the lawn in square metres.

b

Find the area of the garden in square metres. Round your answer to two decimal places.

c

If roll-on lawn costs \$12 per square metre, how much will it cost to cover the lawn and the garden?

d

Find the paved area in square metres. Round your answer to two decimal places.

e

Paving costs \$100 per square metre. Find the cost to pave the paved area.

16

A simple t-shirt pattern has the dimensions given in the diagram below, with a semicircular neck hole in the front piece only:

a

Find the area of the back of the t-shirt.

b

Find the area of the front of the t-shirt, to one decimal place.

c

If the front and back pieces are both cut from two rectangular pieces of fabric with dimensions 90\text{ cm} by 80\text{ cm}, how much fabric is wasted? Round your answer to the nearest square centimetre.

d

The fabric costs \$8 per metre length, where one metre length is a piece of fabric with width 80\text{ cm} and length 100\text{ cm}. If the t-shirt pieces are cut out of two 0.9 metre lengths as in part (a), how much will the fabric cost for 100 t-shirts?

17

The diagram below shows a parallelogram-shaped area of lawn. There are sprinklers placed at points A and B, which are configured to water the indicated sectors of the lawn. The sprinklers are situated at the centre of their corresponding sectors.

a

Find the area of lawn that is covered by sprinkler A in square metres. Round your answer to one decimal place.

b

Find the area of lawn that is covered by sprinkler B in square metres. Round your answer to one decimal place.

c

If each sprinkler uses 2 L of water per square metre in one hour, find the amount of water the sprinklers use in an hour, in litres. Round your answer to one decimal place.

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solve practical problems requiring the calculation of perimeters and areas of circles, sectors of circles, triangles, rectangles, parallelograms and composites

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